China’s ambassador to the Philippines was forced to clarify that the archipelago nation is not Chinese territory on Tuesday, after photos of satirical banners hung in Manila claimed otherwise.
“[The Philippines] has never been any part of China,” the envoy, Zhao Jianhua, said. “No, not now, not ever.”
“It’s a kind of vicious attack, not only on the relations between the two countries but also on the independent foreign policy pursued by President Duterte and his administration,” Zhao told reporters, according to Rappler.
Last week, banners emblazoned with the words “Welcome to the Philippines, province of China,” were hung off of footbridges throughout Manila. Reports on the stunt went viral, amid widespread dissatisfaction with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s foreign policy.
One poll, conducted in June and published last week, found most respondents would like to see more vocal opposition to China’s militarization of disputed territory and construction of artificial islands, as well as a strengthening of the navy.
53% of the respondents had “little trust” in China. Only 18% said that China would be trustworthy in negotiations.
Controversially, Duterte has refused to enforce a 2016 ruling by The Hague on disputed territory in the South China Sea while at the same time courting loans and investments from Beijing. Critics have lambasted his “independent foreign policy” as independent only from the US, while being increasingly dependant on China.
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Sad… So sad these Peonies….
Settling for this https://youtu.be/V2gMPnOaoPg as is opposed to the chances probability of turning a new leaf and make fir themselves yet anther el tigre as this https://youtu.be/0In9etHOyW4, this https://youtu.be/ZVcJVmyjhyw, this https://youtu.be/8gU7Kcfy6Kk, or this https://youtu.be/jTH9NRHXPsI…
I suppose they’ve been so far indoctrinated they just can’t think for themselves but to follow the maestro wherever the maestro direct them https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6770090/jonestown-massacre-survivor-cult-mass-suicide/ sad… so sad…
Let them rot! It’s probably destination…
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Nah, I’d say we need to take over Phils just enough to give them some good old fashioned socialist/commie/godless make over for a change. Can start with building more functional schools instead of churches, more and better teachers instead of bible humphing priests and ban those smoky bibile stuff until one is 25 yrs old. Before that one should concentrate on education and a career.
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Well… I don’t mind the Chinese side of them, but, how do you extract the Chinese part out and reject the Pinoy part as if a cut of BBQ pork hanging from a BBQ vendor’s window you can select and choose to put on your dinner table? You can’t.
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Philippinese are vietnamese and american state.
If Koxinga didn’t die prematurely after he ousted the Dutch from Taiwan he would have invaded Spanish phillipines and phillipines would have being a province…
Philippines cannot be part of china.
totally different culture even chinese operating business in china town in manila go to church.
Flora de la Sinensis, The American killed, maimed and tortured hundreds of millions innocent people around the world including the USA itself. In order to get out of the title, the King of Psychopathic Serial Killer of the World, the American alleged other nations killed their own people more than the American, therefore the American war crimes, crime against humanity and crime against peace were not crimes but humanitarian intervention. The American even support their fake allegations with data derived from the US Census Bureau’s (the US Fake News Bureau) massive death toll hypothesis.
The article just informed how easy it is to fool people and brainwash them. For over 2000 years China has been trading with nations in South East Asia. It did not invade and conquer any. The European came in 1500. What did they do? Within 2 year they get hold of Malacca. The rest is history, or so forgotten "Half devil and half child". (R. Kipling).
Prem Sawlani, you should know once upon a time the Sultan of Luzon did try to make Luzon (current Philippines) be part of China; mind you, the sense of part of a nation is quite different between then and nowadays. Besides church is an alien ritual imposed on the Filipino, it is not native to the Filipino; if the Filipino can take an alien ritual as their culture, it only proves the Filipino culture can be altered and moulded easily.
It is the same story in Vietnam, why Vietnamese do not know their own history? The French carried out culture genocide in Vietnam; the French imposed a totally alien European writing script on Vietnamese to replace Vietnamese own writing script, so that the French and American can rewrite Vietnamese history for the Vietnamese for the purpose to sever the culture tie between Vietnamese and Chinese in order to let them rule Vietnam without resistance perpetually. Though the French and American are out of Vietnam, but the toxic seeds the French and American sowed to poison the relationship between Vietnam and China via the revisionist Vietnamese history is still germinating.
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Whites back then and white colonialism, it/they knows no bounds..
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Joe Wong
And yet, these Pinoys idolizes and worships the wrong factions. Ironic isn’t it? The powers of Catholicism (Pimoy religion) I suppose are factors in nations of zombies isn’t it?
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